Atanycolus denigrator (Linnaeus 1758)

Petersen-Silva, Ricardo, Pujade-Villar, Juli, Naves, Pedro, Edmundo Sousa, & Belokobylskij, Sergey, 2012, Parasitoids of Monochamus galloprovincialis (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), vector of the pine wood nematode, with identification key for the Palaearctic region, ZooKeys 251, pp. 29-48 : 32-33

Atanycolus denigrator (Linnaeus 1758) Figures 7a, e

Material examined.

Portugal: 1 female, "Leiria, 1/6/2011", "Ensaio Pupas Natural", "Col. Estação Florestal Nacional"; 1 male, "Leiria, 1/6/2011", "Ensaio Pupas Natural", "Col. Entomologica, est. Florestal".

Distribution.

Palaearctic: Austria, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, former Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom. Afrotropical: Niger ( Yu et al. 2005, Wang et al. 2009). This species is here recorded for Portugal for the first time.

Hosts.

Anthaxia morio Fabricius, Chrysobothris chrysostigma Linnaeus, Chrysobothris solieri Laporte & Gory, Lampra rutilans (Fabricius), Poecilonota variolosa (Paykull) ( Buprestidae ); Acanthocinus aedilis Linnaeus, Acanthocinus griseus (Fabricius), Arhopalus syriacus (Reitter), Monochamus galloprovincialis (Oliver), Monochamus sutor (Linnaeus), Rhagium indagator Fabricius, Rhagium inquisitor Linnaeus, Rhagium mordax (Degeer), Saperda populnea (Linnaeus), Tetropium castaneum (Linnaeus), Tetropium fuscum (Linnaeus), Tetropium gabrieli Weise ( Cerambycidae ); Ips sexdentatus (Boerner) ( Scolytidae ) ( Yu et al. 2005, Wang et al. 2009).

Biology.

Atanycolus denigrator is an ectoparasitoid of Monochamus galloprovincialis attacking Pinus pinaster . The species was found parasitizing the first larval instars under the bark of the tree.

Remarks.

Atanycolus denigrator was already recorded in Italy as parasitoid of Monochamus galloprovincialis ( Campadelli and Scaramozzino 1994). We additionally studied this reared Italian material in Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest (1 female, "Italia, Ravenna, 14.IV.1992, Campadelli", "Pinus picea", "ex larva Monochamus galloprovincialis Ol., 21.IV.1992", " Atanycolus ♀ denigrator L. det. Papp J. 2000"; 1 female, same first label, but “21.IV.1992”, second and third labels are the same ones) and confirmed present determination.